Monday, June 6th, 2011
We live in a beautiful, strangely connected world. A world where an Argus pheasant dancing in the under-storey of a Malaysian rainforest is linked by logging and timber trade to furniture in households in Coimbatore or Delhi....
Tuesday, May 31st, 2011
The 2011 WALIS Forum will join the 7th International Symposium on Digital Earth (ISDE7) to create a unique spatial information conference in Perth, 23 – 25 August. The digital earth modellers and spatial science communities will be...
Tuesday, May 31st, 2011
India's wildlife and forest management officials are finding a new way of dealing with endangered fauna - by using simple but effective technology tools such as radio sensor tagging that helps in tracking the movement and breeding...
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
Geospatial information such as survey results plays an important role in appropriate national land management such as prompt response to disasters, including an earthquake, storm and flood, as well as the conservation of a favorable environment. In recent years, opportunities...
Thursday, March 31st, 2011
A century ago, when Rudyard Kipling created the scheming tiger Shere Khan, who stalked a jungle much like this one, there were an estimated 40,000 tigers in India’s forests. The government announced Monday the results of a...
Sunday, March 13th, 2011
The Tasmanian Greens say the state government needs to intervene in the state's forest peace talks. Environmental and timber groups involved in the talks have agreed to a six-month timeline for phasing out logging in high conservation...
Monday, February 28th, 2011
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said Sunday the government would build a more effective monitoring mechanism to ensure the funds allocated for water conservation projects are not embezzled. Read More
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011
The Government of Sarawak is intensifying wildlife conservation and protection activities as part of its commitment to sustainable development. It is implementing major development plans throughout Sarawak that will create jobs, improve basic infrastructure and create a...
Thursday, January 13th, 2011
Giant pandas have been known to require a unique habitat, but data mining of a recent in-depth and large-scale mapping and monitoring effort yields new insight indicating that they need old-growth forests as much as bamboo ...
Tuesday, January 11th, 2011
The incessant inflow and the exponential growth of a city, in itself, may not be a scary challenge, but weak urban planning and lack of political commitment to provide adequate housing is, as Arjun Appadurai points out...
